Case Study: Building the Roadrunner public website site + Bonus: Deep dive building site admin tools wtih Telerik RadGrid
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This document discusses a case study of a SharePoint 2013 internet site implementation for Roadrunner Transportation Systems. It describes the business challenges of an aging ASP.NET site and outlines the solution of building 30 line of business apps and administrative tools using the SharePoint farm solutions model. Key aspects of the technical architecture including authentication and data storage are also summarized. The project was successful, increasing key metrics like page views and decreasing the exit percentage according to Google Analytics.
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Case Study: Building the Roadrunner public website site + Bonus: Deep dive building site admin tools wtih Telerik RadGrid
- 1. Case Study: SP2013 Internet Site ROADRUNNER TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS 2014
- 2. 2014 Who is Michael Blumenthal? • Sr. Solution Architect • CSPUG Co-Leader • 19 years in IT Consulting • 11 years of SharePoint • Team member on this project
- 3. 2014 Today RRTS.com Building Custom Data Admin Tools
- 4. 2014 This is about you! SharePoint Internet site experience? • Version? Used 3rd party controls?
- 5. THE BIG PICTURE – RRTS.COM 2014 PART 1
- 6. 2014 Roadmap The business challenge The solution Technical Architecture & key components Team Measures of success
- 7. 2014 The Challenge: The Client
- 8. 2014 The Challenge: Aging ASP.Net site 30+ Subsidiary Sites 500+ Line of business tools Small Internal developer staff AS400 integration User Management Older VB.NET code base
- 9. 2014 The Challenge: Analysis • 30+ Subsidiary Sites • 250+ Pages • 100+ Forms • 16 Login Methods • 32 Reports • 63 Tools 10/23/2014 9
- 10. 2014 Roadmap The business challenge The solution Technical Architecture & key components Team Measures of success
- 11. Branding Home Admin Search Companies 12 Layouts 2014 Solution: Design Goals Modern Friendly Design Tools Axure PS Bootstrap 10/23/2014 11
- 12. 2014 Solution: Development What We Saw • 30+ Subsidiary Sites • 250+ Pages • 100+ Forms • 16 Login Methods • 32 Reports • 63 Tools What We Built • 30 Line of Business Apps • 15 Admin Apps • 8 SSRS Reports • 7 Web Services • 6 Service Segments Pages • 16+ Company Sites 10/23/2014 12
- 13. WALKTHROUGH OF RRTS IMPROVEMENTS 2014
- 14. 2014 Roadmap The business challenge The solution Technical Architecture & key components Team Measures of success
- 16. 2014 Development Decisions Farm Solutions vs. App Model Authentication Data Storage 10/23/2014 16
- 17. 2014 Farm Solutions! Farm Solutions • On Premise • Mature • Resources SP App Model • Cloud Oriented • Immature • Challenging
- 19. Data Storage
- 20. Production Farm
- 21. 2014 Roadmap The business challenge The solution Technical Architecture & key components Team Measures of success
- 22. SP Arch Data Arch SP Devs Tester 2014 The A-Team Account Exec Practice Lead Project Manager Sr. UX Designer UX Designer • Client: 2 .Net developers, 1 Team Lead, 1 manager, 1 CIO , 1 Dir of Marketing
- 23. 2014 Solution: Project Management 2x Weekly status meetings PSC Client Extranet Shared Team Notes • Every Meeting • Every App Working Out Loud
- 24. 2014 Measures of success • 700 Bills Of Lading/day • Increased hits, decreased exits Google Analytics 3 mo Before 3 mo After Page Views 3,393,986 5,270,783 Unique Page Views 2,609,161 3,606,197 Average Time on Page 1m:51s 1m:21s % Exit 27.92% 20.79%
- 25. 2014 Summary The business challenge The solution Technical Architecture & key components Team Measures of success
- 26. BUILDING DATA ADMIN TOOLS WITH TELERIK RADGRID 2014 PART 2
- 27. 2014 Roadmap Why Telerik? Installing Telerik Building an Admin Page with RadGrid
- 28. 2014 Why custom Web Parts?
- 32. 2014
- 33. No Free Lunch
- 34. 2014 Roadmap Why Telerik? Installing Telerik Building an Admin Page with RadGrid
- 35. Installing Telerik ASP.NET AJAX library 2014
- 37. So how do you wire it up?
- 39. 2014
- 41. 2014
- 42. 2014 Roadmap Why Telerik? Installing Telerik Building an Admin Page with RadGrid
- 43. 1. 2. 3. 4. 2014 Zero to Done in 4 Steps Done! Custom Row Editor Custom Columns Display DB Data Add RadGrid
- 44. 2014 #1: Add RadGrid to your Web Part
- 45. 2014 #2: Display Your Data
- 46. #2a: Set the Data Source to a Data Table 2014
- 47. 2014
- 48. 2014 #3:Customize the Columns
- 49. 2014 Before and After
- 50. 2014 3a: Tweak the Column Renderings
- 51. 2014 Tooltips!
- 52. 2014 #4: Custom Row Editor Yuck! Yeah!
- 53. 2014
- 56. 2014 4a: Wiring up row changes
- 57. 2014 4b: Insert
- 58. 2014 4c:Update
- 59. 2014 4e: Delete
- 60. 2014 Zero to Done in 4 Steps Done! Custom Row Editor Custom Columns Display DB Data Add RadGrid
- 61. 2014 Bonus: Sorting & Paging
- 62. 2014 Roadmap Why Telerik? Installing Telerik Building an Admin Page with RadGrid
- 63. 2014 Resources Telerik: www.Telerik.com Sample Code: https://sp2013radgridexample.codeplex.com/
- 64. 2014 Review RRTS.com Building Custom Data Admin Tools
- 65. Thank you for your time today. 2014 Questions • Michael Blumenthal SharePoint Architect PSC Group, LLC • MBlumenthal@psclistens.com • psclistens.com • www.cspug.org • Blog.blumenthalit.com • Twitter: @MichaelBL • SPYam & MWC Yam
Editor's Notes
- Michael Blumenthal mblumenthal@psclistens.com
- Devs? Admins? Using sp2013 for internet site? Public Facing Website on SharePoint?
- Truckload, Less-Than-Truckload, Intermodal 2500+ Employees, 15,000+ Contractors 30 Different Acquisitions
- Website only talked about one line of business Existing VB.NET codebase needed to be rewritten due to changes in data access – now a central db. We wore many hats: Gather Requirements Business Process Consulting Technology Consulting Management Consulting We helped the business understand what they needed to communicate and accomplish.
- Over 500 pieces of content Many overlaps
- 4 total masterpages. 1 for the main site, 1 for admin and 1 for search, (these are technically the same with some minor tweaks). Then 1 for the companies sub sites, (this one was completely different) and page layouts...
- SharePoint 2013 for Internet Web Part Development Solution Packages Telerik Twitter Bootstrap SQL 2012 / Custom Database No more Internet license costs vs 2010 Development of Web Parts in parallel with site structure, branding, navigation Putting each app in its own solution package rather than one giant solution package made maintenance, upgrades easy Use of Telerik controls ASP.NET Ajax Controls (details later in the deck) Integrating OOTB FBA user management model with a rich user model (details later in the deck) Use of a custom SQL database because this is highly relational Line of Business data. SQL DB vs. Lists
- Decided to go with server side development. Made decision in June 2013. Initially wanted to go App Model Tried of couple of process / Took 3-4 time as long App Model is maturing / But Still Not ready Yet
- External Users – Extended Properties – FBA Framework Much customization required.
- Back-End is SQL instead of using Lists - Integrate with AS/400 Pre-existing web services needed to be maintained. Active/Passive SQL Cluster had two SQL Instances, one for SP, one for the Roadrunner LOB data.
- No Fault tolerance / Disaster Recovery in the system that we replaced. New system uses a fault tolerant design. LB 3 WFE 2 App 1 SQL Cluster 2 instances: SP, RRC DB Stage, dev: reduced farm members
- Possibly play A-Team theme song?
- PSC Client Portal (our SP2013 extranet) was heavily used. Frequent Status Meetings PSC Client Portal – SharePoint 2013 Shared OneNote Notebook Yammer
- % Exits - % of people that leave the site after visiting just the home page. That means 80% of users delve deeper into the site, up from 73%.
- Plan UX Design First Determine Development Strategy Incorporate Pre-Built Tools and Frameworks Store Relational Data in a Database Test, Test, Test
- Not BCS No search requirement Lists not appropriate Learning curve Straightforward Good UX
- Restart of VS required when done. Took 2 vs restarts for it to work right.
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